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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Ways of Coexistence: How European Perceptions and Interpretations of Non-European Gender Relations Changed over Time
DESCRIPTION:How should men and women interact? How should they behave and dress? What are men and women, and are there only two genders? Gender history has shown that people discussed such questions in various epochs and places in history, and that they found a wide range of answers. Today these questions become particularly urgent. In an age of globalization, people with different views on gender live next to each other. Ways of coexistence and the tolerance for divergent gender arrangements are therefore the subject of intense debates on cultural values. These debates have prompted us to organize a panel that analyzes different layers of European perceptions and evaluations of non-European gender arrangements from a trans-epochal perspective. The contributions focus on European authors who wrote in different cultural contact zones. They analyze their interpretations of gender arrangements and show how these interpretations changed in time. The starting point of our analysis is Joan Scott’s hypothesis of the “legitimizing function of gender”, which made gender arrangements a sensitive issue of high symbolic relevance. The panel shows that observing divergent gender arrangements in cultural contact zones could lead to different results. These could range from cultural self-assurance to disconcertion, from feelings of cultural proximity to feelings of cultural distance, and from the praise of a society’s civility to its rejection as barbarian.
Der Beitrag Ways of Coexistence: How European Perceptions and Interpretations of Non-European Gender Relations Changed over Time erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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